Thanks to the recent success of Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, a whole new group of people have been introduced to the body horror subgenre. While the physical transformations in the genre are often what is talked about, it’s the deeper emotional battle raging inside the characters that far outshines the shocking imagery. A new addition to the long list of films in this genre (notable gems worth mentioning are The Fly and The Thing) is Sasha Rainbow’s Grafted, which some critics have compared to Mean Girls and Face/ Off. The official description is: Chinese scholarship student Wei, who travels to New Zealand to study medical research at a prestigious university. Shy, introverted, and hiding a genetic facial birthmark, Wei is shunned by her social butterfly cousin Angela and her glamorous friends. Determined to change her fate, Wei immerses herself in her late father’s research, working on a revolutionary skin grafting procedure that could cure her deformity. As her experiments take a dark turn, she becomes more dangerous and unhinged, willing to eliminate anyone who threatens her secret.Sasha tasked composer Lachlan Anderson with bringing the Grafted story to life, musically. Lachlan did this with not only high-octane synths but also found objects such as the fan in the opening scene, which he distorted. He also leaned into using organic sources such as vocal/body sounds. When discussing this topic he says, “I recorded lots of different mouth sounds like popping, breathing, whispers and screaming which were processed beyond recognition. These sounds can...
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